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Toby Keith

Birth Name:

Toby Keith Covel

Genre:

country

Music Category:

Singer

Best Known For:

"Beer for My Horses"
"As Good as I Once Was"

Short bio:

Toby Keith (born July 8, 1961) is a country music singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned gold or higher certification, and produced several chart singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated.

Signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 1998, Keith released his breakthrough single "How Do You Like Me Now?!" that year. This song, the title track to his 1999 album of the same name, was the number one country song of 2000, and one of several chart-toppers during his tenure on DreamWorks Nashville. His next three albums, Pull My Chain, Unleashed, and Shock'n Y'all, produced three more number ones each, and all of the albums were certified multi-platinum. A second Greatest Hits package followed in 2004, and after that, he released Honkytonk University.

When DreamWorks closed in 2005, Keith founded the label Show Dog Nashville, which merged with Universal South Records to become Show Dog-Universal Music in December 2009. He has released nine studio albums through Show Dog/Show Dog-Universal: 2006's White Trash with Money, 2007's Big Dog Daddy, 2008's That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy, 2009's American Ride, 2010's Bullets in the Gun, 2011's Clancy's Tavern, 2012's Hope on the Rocks, and 2013's Drinks After Work, 2015's 35 MPH Town, as well as the compilation 35 Biggest Hits in 2008. Keith also made his acting debut in 2006, starring in the film Broken Bridges, and co-starred with comedian Rodney Carrington in the 2008 film Beer for My Horses, inspired by his song of the same name.

Overall, Keith has released seventeen studio albums, two Christmas albums, and four compilation albums. He has also charted sixty-one singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including twenty number one hits and twenty-one additional top 10 hits. His longest-lasting number one hits are "Beer for My Horses" (a 2003 duet with Willie Nelson) and "As Good as I Once Was" (2005), at six weeks each. He has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.

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Dear Mr. Keith , I'm a soldier stationed in Afghanistan a long ways from home in Southwest virginia. I know you probably get thousands of email and text, but just In case you get mine I want you to know that your music has given me inspiration when times were tuff, and hope when things were ruff like the light at the end of the tunnel it always lifted me up. I have fought what it would be like to sit at a bar and drink a cold beer and have a good steak and shoot the shit with ya would be like. I'm just a old country boy who's always worked hard for the little bit I have. 23 years as a cop and came in the military at the age of 34. 13 years later I'm still kicking up sand and taking care of business. I've got a son and a daughter and a wife that loves me, I love horse and old cars and weekends off. Being deployed I'm never off the public would never understand what we do or why we do what we do they probably don't care for the most part, but they enjoy the freedoms from the blood of my brothers and sisters. They don't even think of the sacrifices of all the soldiers of past and present till things hit close to home. Like the towers that fell or the night club shot to hell in Florida . They want to take our guns and say guns kill ! All I see is ratical exstreamist ( Islamic Muslims ) doing the damage! American need weapons to defend themselves ! Hope you feel this way too! Sorry that's a soft spot for me. Well if you ever get a chance and want to have a cold one or ten and hang out and eat a steak look me up! It want cost ya nothin but your time! Would love to show you my old 67 Camaro I've been working on for the past 7 years. Well it's almost 1 am here I'm gonna crash got about 3 months left in this rat hole and it's back to the U.S. Thank goodness! Take care and give me a shout! Hooha! And one more thing thanks for all the great songs!

I'm a Cali boy reading your message. We are about the same age..I might have you by a couple years. I want to personally thank you for your service and all you do for us back home. If you and your boys need anything..like a care package..let me know and it's on the way. Stay safe and keep tilting that red solo cup every chance you get. All my best and all my prayers.
Cali Bill

Dear Mr. Keith, I am writing to you on behalf of my wife who is probably your biggest fan. She is currently in the hospital in the ICU fighting for her life, she has had one hell of a summer. Everytime that you have come to Ft. Sill for a show, she has been there, even when it rained so bad we were standing up to our knees in mud and water. She has every album that you have put out and listens to them all the time, we go to Bricktown and eat in your restaurant on a regular basis and she always hopes you are there so she can catch a glimpse of you. You and your music are an inspiration to her..I just wanted you to know that. Thank you.

I am a loyal fan of yours, and I ask that you please reconsider performing at Trump's Inauguration. I believe you are a proud American with a good head on his shoulders, who appreciates his loyal fans. Please do not let us down by performing at Trump's Inauguration. Thank you for all you do.

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